Gentrification Archives

The Geography of Anti-Gentrification: Google Buses and the World Trade Center

Why aren't Google and Twitter welcome in San Francisco?

The term is selectively applied, depending on personal politics, and obscures much more pressing problems.

For a new demographic, the urban zip code has cachet.

Why the loudest anti-gentrification protesters come from the wealthiest areas in the wealthiest countries in the entire world.

The ongoing debates about gentrification boil down to nothing more than one big turf war.

The effects of gentrification in New Orleans.

Are our romantic attachments to place to blame for fear of brain drain from, immigration to, and gentrification of our cities?

On the evolution of Hoosiers, Okies, and carpetbaggers.

Gentrifiers suffer from gentrification as rising housing costs push people out of their first- and second-choice neighborhoods.

Someone has to explore a place first and put it on your mental map.